OK. I am all for IP. I am less for some moron telling me that I, or 
someone else, can't alter it to make it work right. Mind you, his 
mistake may have basically been suggesting donations, but the rest of 
just 100% total and complete BS.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?
board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=116332&view=by_date_ascending&page=
1

Basically, one guy figured out that Creative Labs has been lying about 
incompatibility between some cards and Vista, that they could fix it 
over night, if they wanted to, and that they haven't even attempted to 
put out drivers that work right for the latest cards, all with the 
apparent purpose of forcing people to upgrade to the next card, which 
*will* be full Vista supported. The guy that figured this out patched 
the existing drivers so they do work, but since it still required 
"their" unpatched, otherwise incompatible, and defective drivers, and 
because he made the stupid mistake of giving people the option to donate 
to him for his trouble, Creative deleted all forum threads and told him 
to cease and desist. Pretty much *everyone* that was dumb enough to 
install Vista, and has a Creative card, is.. less than amused. Can't say 
I am either. I might have thought about getting a better card at some 
point, if I wanted to push my gaming capabilities, but I am not sure at 
this point that I would want one from the company that *used to be* the 
best on the market (and if the damn things still had functional drivers 
for them, might still be).

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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